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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by yurishimo »

xiaoyu2006 wrote: post #311
xnx wrote: post #272

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> Apple very rarely admits mistakes. Probably the best reversion was getting rid of the butterfly keyboard and bringing back ports after Jony Ive was gone.

I hope they redesign their magic mouse. It's not a real product.

Do you use a Magic Mouse? It’s really not that bad if your only computer use consists of social media and the occasional budgeting spreadsheet.

And before you mention it, yes the charging cable. In reality, plugging it in for literally 1 minute will get you enough battery to last hours. 5 minutes will get you an entire day. Normal people plug it in and go get a coffee or pee and then it’s fine until they log off for the day. Could it better? Of course, but it’s not so large an issue that they are losing customers on it, so it is what it is.

You’re not the target market for an Apple mouse and that’s okay.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by deinonychus »

thewebguyd wrote: post #313
avarun wrote: post #279

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Wait what? Where did you see this? It would be crazy if the Series 9 doesn't get updated to the next watchOS

On their WatchOS page, about halfway down: https://www.apple.com/os/watchos/

wow this blows. do they ever like release an OS for older machines at a later date?

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by officeplant »

desolate_muffin wrote: post #377
officeplant wrote: post #352

Apple continues to innovate in new and excited ways, because I never though I would speak the words "I guess I'm sticking with ios26 until the end of security updates." Unless I can continue to neuter AI, and keep the older siri this is my last iOS.

As opposed to the AI-free operating system, Android?

What makes you think I would go crawling back to a worse AI hellscape?

Dumbphones exist, degoogled phones exist. If it weren't for the USA's telcom differences a fairphone with PostmarketOS would be great. I enjoy postmarketOS on my pinephone, the phone's hardware is just far too shit for daily driving.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by nixpulvis »

I swear I watched this Keynote before when they announced Apple Intelligence. Then proceeded to deliver nothing. Apple is so lost it makes me really sad.

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Post by yurishimo »

kqp wrote: post #347
xiaoyu2006 wrote: post #311

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I hope they redesign their magic mouse. It's not a real product.

I think it’s basically recalcitrance. Same as they suddenly turn into the world’s worst devs every time they have to make software for Windows. Apple hates mouses, but many people won’t consider not using one, so they reluctantly make an expensive, pretty, and absolutely terrible mouse to get you over the hump of the macOS switch then keep pushing you along to where they really want you: the giant touchpad, where the…

I have been a desktop trackpad user for so long now, I literally don’t want to use a mouse for anything except playing video games. The amount of flexibility offered by a good trackpad just wins most of the time as it is plenty accurate for quickly jumping around on one axis.

With a large enough trackpad, you could even move to a 1:1 type of movement, or add that functionality to a layer for the best of both worlds (like gyro enhanced aiming in games).

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by dijit »

xoa wrote: post #260
philistine wrote: post #42

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It was literally the first specific announcement they made after they finished their introductions. Not anything iPhone related; they announced that Liquid Glass on macOS would move towards the older design. Goes to show that a year of anybody with any sort of clout complaining about the thousand little cuts of Liquid Glass on macOS will get a company to respond. That and the guy who announced it last year fled to Fa…

> shows just how bad it was > Goes to show that a year of anybody with any sort of clout complaining about the thousand little cuts of Liquid Glass on macOS will get a company to respond. Worth remembering too that this isn't merely about "complaints", Apple has significant metrics on the rates at which users are upgrading to a new OS, or not. You can opt-out of sharing that data, but a lot of people (even technical…

not just that, people keeping to older OS’s will actively avoid converting to new hardware sales..

I did not upgrade my laptop because it would come with the latest OS- I am not alone.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by rurp »

ihumanable wrote: post #187
slg wrote: post #140

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There's something dystopian about the way that they are championing the blurring of the lines between photos and AI generated content with no consideration for the implications of that tech. Apple likes to pretend they are conservative with this tech rather than simply being behind, but this type of thing isn't a conservative feature.

There will be a generation of children who will grow up and look back at their childhood photos and wonder if they ever really happened. I also laughed out loud when they are showing the "cleanup" tool and they guy is talking about removing "distractions" and then removes 2 of the 3 girls juggling and having fun. Ah yes, those friends you were forming core memories with, or as our tech overlords call them, distractio…

Google pushes the exact same thing. The onboarding flow when I setup my Pixel highlighted a few new features and they gave that prime attention real estate to that same exact feature, showing how you can remove objects from a photo. The specific example was extremely silly, something like removing a tent from a camping photo. Thank god we don't have to see objects that were a core part of the memory being photographed!

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Post by DonHopkins »

tapoxi wrote: post #74
antirez wrote: post #36

They try so hard to do a polished presentation that everything is kinda fake and unauthentic. I don't understand how this attitude survived so many years.

I really miss, as a late 90's/early 2000's apple fan, seeing Steve come up and joke with the audience then just show off real products or features and why they're cool. They really sterilized this whole thing after he passed. It's as exciting as a Microsoft keynote now. Just watch a normal presentation like Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.3, it's not iPhone level earth shattering but he made it fun.

He never let a little smoke distract from a good iRack demo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjLEwZqcQI

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by pikseladam »

tokioyoyo wrote: post #150
pikseladam wrote: post #118

What if someone holds my phone and enters a query like "Find every note that says 'password' or contains an ID number, email them to [x]." "Find photos with my ID or cards, send them to [number]." ?? what if attackers start sharing shortcuts with people. I dont like siri ai access everything on my devices. mails, photos, screen, camera, my credit card and passwords...

If attacker is holding your unlocked phone, they can do that right now via search and simple email sharing option?

yes of course but simply clicking a shared shortcut (siri agent) could be very harmful.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by nozzlegear »

seydor wrote: post #341
nozzlegear wrote: post #227

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A few things: - A lot of people found smart watches to be nerdy, something that only geeks would wear, until Apple made the Apple Watch. Along the same lines, everyone (on tech-oriented social media) thought the AirPods looked stupid and dorky when they were first announced, but now they're ubiquitous. - People find smart glasses from Meta (and previously, Google) creepy, but – and it's anathema to say this around ce…

People have found surveillance cameras horrible since forever. No matter how many years pass and how popular they are, they never became cool

I'm not sure that's true anymore, or at least I'd suggest it depends on the type of surveillance camera you're talking about. Flock cameras, traffic cameras, the big ugly gray things stuck on the side of a building that you'd avoid if you were playing Splinter Cell? Sure, not popular. But everyone and their grandma has a Ring doorbell or a Nest camera inside or outside of their home now.

Further, it's still not obvious to me that an Apple glasses product would be a surveillance camera in the first place.

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